Re: [Distutils] Distutils question

Great, thanks! It looks like out of tree builds are supported fine even in distutils. Properly written extensions will also find the build directory as a property of the build command. There should be no barrier to using the single build wheel function for the pep. On Sun, Jul 9, 2017, 10:33 Jeremy Kloth wrote:

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

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Unrelated to pep 517, remind me whether when invoking setup.py build -b dir bdist, if the -b argument passed to the build command is supposed to affect the build command run as a subcommand of bdist? Asking for a friend 😸

"setup.py build -b {dirname} bdist" will first run the build command (and its sub commands build_*) then invoke the bdist command. When bdist requests build to be executed, distutils will see that it is already run and simply continue on. Even if a reinit is requested (for build), the supplied options will be applied again when the build command is finalized prior to running.

-- Jeremy Kloth